I'm in UE4 4.21.2
I'm a total noob for UE4. I'm following along with a tutorial where I need to use the GetPlayerViewPoint method on the PlayerController class, however when I try and call that method, I get a compile time error that says: class "APlayerController" has no member "GetPlayerViewPoint"Which is weird because I get autocomplete in Visual Studio for other methods on that class, but not that particular method, BUT I can see that method in the docs here:
Could it be that my compiler and autocomplete are using a different UE4 version than the docs and tutorial? Anyways, here is my class.
// Copyright, 2018
#include "BryceEscapeRoomUe4.h"
#include "Grabber.h"
#include "Runtime/Engine/Classes/GameFramework/Actor.h"
#include "Engine/World.h";
#include "GameFramework/PlayerController.h"
#define OUT
// Sets default values for this component's properties
UGrabber::UGrabber()
{ // Set this component to be initialized when the game starts, and to be ticked every frame. You can turn these features // off to improve performance if you don't need them. PrimaryComponentTick.bCanEverTick = true; // ...
}
// Called when the game starts
void UGrabber::BeginPlay()
{ Super::BeginPlay(); UE_LOG(LogTemp, Warning, TEXT("Grabber repoting for duty!"));
}
// Called every frame
void UGrabber::TickComponent(float DeltaTime, ELevelTick TickType, FActorComponentTickFunction* ThisTickFunction)
{ Super::TickComponent(DeltaTime, TickType, ThisTickFunction); // get player view point this tick FVector PlayerVeiwPointLocation; FRotator PlayerVeiwPointRotaion; GetWorld()->GetFirstPlayerController()->GetPlayerVeiwPoint( OUT PlayerVeiwPointLocation, OUT PlayerVeiwPointRotaion ); //log out to test //ray cast out to reach distance // see what we hit
}1 Answer
I think this may have been caused by the fact that you have spelled GetPlayerViewPoint as GetPlayerVeiwPoint, which isn't a method that exists in UE4. Hopefully that should fix the problem, although as this is a relatively old question I'm sure you figured that out a while ago!
